Mobile Social Networking

Name

Description

Type

1

3jam

www.3jam.com is a free web-text service that sends single or group texts to and from PCs and mobile phones, and supports most video and audio formats.

A

2

aki-aki

Based in Germany, but also available in English, www.aki-aki.com automatically notifies you when any other subscribers who are nearby.

B

3

brightkite

www.brightkite.com is a location-based social network, allowing you to keep up to date with where your friends are and what they’re doing

B

4

Broadtexter

www.broadtexter.com is for sending text messages to large groups of people. Users create a “club”, and can send free texts to all subscribers to that club.

A

5

buddyping

Send a text message to www.buddyping.com, and it will respond with a list of any friends or events happening in or near your location.

B

6

Dodgeball

www.dodgeball.com allows you to broadcast your current location or a short message to anyone within a 10 block radius, based on your friends (and friends-of-friends) list.

B

7

flagr

www.flagr.com is a geo-tagging service that allows you to access user-generated on-line maps, photos and information.

C

8

Flixwagon

www.flixwagon.com streams videos live from your cameraphone, and publishes them directly to your flixwagon account. It can even publish them straight to Youtube, for those who are brave or very careful.

F

9

Friendstribe

www.friendstribe.com is a location-based service that helps you and your friends track each other, send mass texts quickly, and get everyone at the same place at the same time. You can also locate venues or message everyone who’s near a chosen place.

B

10

funkysexycool

A mobile phone enabled dating service, www.funkysexycool.com allows users to create a personal profile, and browse surface information about other users.

D

11

gatsb

Essentially flickr on mobile phone, www.gatsb.com is dedicated to sharing geo-tagged photographs between users.

C

12

Groovr

www.groovr.com allows you to share text, pictures, videos and location information between PCs and mobile phones. It’s based on chatrooms, with different levels of privacy and a “Circle of Trust” to determine who you can send and receive from.

E

13

Hobonobster

www.hobonobster.com is a profile-centred, friend finding service. All profiles are public and can be searched by other members. It’s more focused on meeting new people and dating then on maintaining a social circle.

D

14

imity

Using bluetooth, www.imity.com detects any other imity users that are near you, and keeps a record of who you’ve met, and when.

B

15

itsmy.com

www.itsmy.com is dedicated solely to sharing cameraphone videos, to the extent that they don’t even allow you to upload videos via PC. You have to upload from your phone to their mobile site.

F

16

Jaiku

www.jaiku.com shares an online log of your day, including messages, events and photos through “activity streams”. Jaiku Mobile allows you to view other users streams through your contacts list.

E

17

JuiceCaster

www.juicecaster.com lets you create a profile and share messages, pictures and videos with your friends. You can also use it to update other social networking sites incuding Twitter, Bebo and Facebook.

E

18

JYGY

www.jygy.com focuses on mobile services called “grooves” that you can make and share with your friends. Grooves are small, highly customisable web-pages you can tailor to whatever function you’re interested in, from polls to chatpages.

E

19

LoopNote

www.loopnote.com users create a “loop”, and can send free texts to all subscribers to that loop. Loops can be browsed quickly on your mobile by tags.

A

20

meetMoi

www.meetmoi.com is specifically a dating service. You create your profile, and it tracks you in real-time and alerts you whenever another meetMoi single is near you, without revealing actual locations.

D

21

mig33

www.mig33.com prioritises free (or at least cheap) global communication by offering services like VoIP, Skype and IM on your mobile.

G

22

Mobagetown

Another Japanese site, www.mobagetown.com is completely dedicated to making revenue from free games. Members have customisable avatars, but the customisations are dependent on how many ads you watch. This is the only gaming dedicated Social Networking Site on this list, so it will be uncategorised until it’s joined by a few more!

23

Mobikade

Based on a popular Japanese model, http://www2.mkade.com/ creates a mobile space to which you can post text and images. Privacy settings allow you to dictate who can view each individual update.

E

24

mobiluck

www.mobiluck.com is a location-based service. It helps you see where your friends are, offers SMS alerts whenever a friend is nearby, and has thorough privacy options.

B

25

mobiSiteGalore

A free mobile website builder, www.mobisitegalore.com was the first site that allowed you to build a mobile website on a mobile phone.

E

26

moblabber

Concentrating on group texts, www.moblabber.com allows users to create and join groups. Groups are organised by category, and texts are sent to all members of your group.

A

27

Mocospace

www.mocospace.com is America’s largest mobile social networking site. It allows mobile chat, instant messaging, photo and video sharing, and forums.

E

28

MyGamma

www.mygamma.com centres on blog and photo sharing. It offers the opportunity to keep contact between communities of invite-only friends, or to shout your presence to the world at large.

E

29

Myspace / Facebook / Bebo / LiveJournal / etc.

Almost all of the large social networking sites have their own mobile portals, links to which are available from the parent site.

E

30

Next2Friends

www.next2friends.com calls itself a mobile social media platform, combining elements of social networking, media sharing and location-based services.

E

31

NowThen

www.nowthen.com is dedicated to storing and broadcasting your mobile phone pics. You can send them to other phones, mobile devices and PCs, or publish them on other networking sites.

F

32

PlacesTodo

Available only in New York City, www.placestodo.com allows you to tag a location with a “to do”. Whenever you activate the site, it reminds you of all your to do’s within a 5 block radius. You can also view and share to do lists with other users.

B/C

33

Rabble

www.rabble.com is a location-based service that allows you to host and create text, picture and video files and share them with nearby rabble users who share similar interests.

B

34

Radar

www.radar.com shares your cameraphone pictures and videos with a friends-only list of other users. It alerts you whenever a friend posts something.

F

35

Shozu

www.shozu.com interfaces with over 50 other social and news sites. It allows photo and video uploads and has live-feeds that download your friends updates as they post them.

E

36

Socialight

A location-based service, socialight.com allows users to tag on-line maps with “stickies” containing text and media information. Other users can access these stickies, and socialight alerts you when you approach one.

C

37

Treemo

www.treemo.com allows you to move photos, videos and audio files from your phone and store them on a personalised mobile website which can be browsed by other users

F

38

Twitter

www.twitter.com is a text-based micro-blogging service. It allows you to send and recieve short messages for free with other users on either PC or mobile phone.

A

39

Veeker

Mostly dedicated to media files, www.veeker.com specialises in sending videos, pictures and webcam messages from your phone or PC to any phone.

F

40

Wadja

www.wadja.com is a cross-platform site. It is based heavily on bebo, but allows full and easy access from the mobile internet.

E

41

Zannel

Post text, video and audio updates with www.zannel.com. Updates are viewable online or on mobile, and can embed on blogs, websites and social networks.

E

42

Zemble

www.zemble.com is a group text site. It allows you to send and receive texts to/from whatever groups you’re subscribed to. Your responses can go to either the entire group or just the message sender

A

43

Zinadoo

www.zinadoo.com makes it easy for users to create their own fully customisable mobile website, complete with links to other sites, texting, email, widgets and RSS feeds.

E

44

Zingku

Designed to increase the usefulness of text messages, www.zingku.com concentrates on allowing large images, videos and music to be sent easily via “mobile flyers”. This service was designed to be of interest to mobile advertisers.

F

45

Zyb

www.zyb.com is an online database of all of your mobile phone contacts. It automatically updates your phonebook, and accesses information on your friends from other social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo.

E